Wreck kills pickup driver in southeast Huntsville

HUNTSVILLE, AL - A Huntsville man was killed early today in an accident in southeast Huntsville.

Kendal Blake Murphree, 48, died at the scene, said Madison County Coroner Bob Berryhill.

Murphree was driving a white pickup and was traveling southbound in the 9500 block of Todd Mill Road when the truck missed a curve, left the street and struck a utility pole and then struck a tree head-on shortly before 3 a.m.

Murphree was alone in the truck.

The wreck occurred just south of Weatherly Road on the west side of the campus of Weatherly Elementary School.